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duodecades

duodecades is the plural of duodecade.

Meaning of duodecade

Noun (1)

duodecade (plural duodecades)

  1. A period of twelve years.
    • Each Chinese New Year during a "Jupiter return"—when a duodecade has passed and the Chinese zodiac animal of your birth year comes back around—it is expected that you find some red underwear to put on for the special occasion.

Noun (2)

duodecade (plural duodecades)

  1. (nonstandard) A period of two decades, a period of 20 years.
    • When I divide the past sixty years, 1706-65, into twenty-year periods, [I discover that] in the first duodecade, 702 people died, that is, an average of 35 a year. In the second period to 1745, 850, or 42i/$ each year, perished.1996, Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany, →ISBN

Questions about duodecades

What is duodecades the plural of?
Duodecades is the plural of duodecade.

Words near duodecades in the dictionary

  1. Duodao
  2. duodec-
  3. duodeca-
  4. duodecad
  5. duodecade
  6. duodecades
  7. duodecads
  8. duodecagon
  9. duodecagonal
  10. duodecagons
  11. duodecahedra

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